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Jared Jeffries was a first-round NBA draft pick who put together a solid 11-year career among multiple teams. On Monday, he could also call himself a winner on “The Price is Right.”The 2002 Big Ten Conference Player of the Year played the “One Away” game on the show and needed a red 7 to pop up in the slot for him to win a new car. All Jeffries needed to do was to form the correct price of the car in order to win the prize. As host Drew Carey had the slide removed from the board, the correct price…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says Democrats “overplayed their hand” in the handling of the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago in light of new revelations of classified documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center, which were taken by now-President Joe Biden after his time as vice president nearly six years ago.”I think from … the same point that the Dems overplayed their hand on the Mar-a-Lago … just a proof of that,” McCarthy responded Monday evening to a reporter’s question about the new reports that Biden took a batch of records from Biden’s time as vice president. A “small number of…

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Alex Highsmith apologized for the CPR sack celebration that he was a part of toward the end of the team’s win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.Steelers defensive end Demarvin Leal came over to Highsmith after he sacked Deshaun Watson and pretended to give him chest compressions. The celebration was described as tone-deaf as it came only days after Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills suffered cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated on the field during a game. Highsmith told reporters Monday he didn’t make the connection until the game was over and he saw the…

Lawmakers expressed outrage Monday over the shoplifting crisis that’s killing local businesses — including by calling for the return of 1990s-style law enforcement in the wake of complaints from nearly 4,000 grocers. “It’s utterly ridiculous that a small subset of career criminals make up 30% of shoplifting arrests in 2022,” said City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens), citing alarming statistics that the NYPD revealed last week that 327 career crooks were busted a total of about 6,600 times. “We can’t have this revolving door of criminality in our state — it’s time to dust off the successful tactics from the ’90s…

Migration rights advocates in the United States have condemned the Biden administration’s new border restrictions for asylum seekers, saying the expansion of a contentious expulsion policy put peoples’ lives in danger. US President Joe Biden unveiled the new measures on Thursday, including the forced return to Mexico each month of as many as 30,000 migrants and refugees from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela who come to the US’s southern border in search of protection. “If you’re trying to leave Cuba, Nicaragua or Haiti … do not just show up at the border. Stay where you are and apply legally from…

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in Colorado made an unprecedented arrest on Monday. Living in the shoe department of a Kohl’s for three weeks, a rare ringtail cat was finally caught by law enforcement officials. The intruder was “hiding out in the shoe department in a Kohl’s store for 3 weeks. Eating ceiling tiles & shoe boxes, he would sneak in and out of our cat traps to get the food w/o tripping the mechanism,” the department tweeted. FERAL COWS IN NM FACE REMOVAL FROM GILA NATIONAL FORESTThe tweet continues, “The secretive creature was carefully collected and released into the nearby woods. Ringtail…

A suspect was in custody Monday in a string of shootings that may have targeted Democratic leaders in Albuquerque, officials said Monday.The suspect, whose name was not released, was being held on charges unrelated to the six shootings at or near Democratic officials’ homes and offices, police Chief Harold Medina said at a news conference. Officials did not say what charges the person was being held on or if charges will be filed in connection with the shootings since early last month.Medina said police have seized a weapon from at least one of the shootings. No one has been injured…

A “small number” of government documents marked as classified were found this fall by lawyers for President Joe Biden in a locked closet in a Washington, D.C., think tank office used by Biden when he was a private citizen, his lawyer said Monday.The Department of Justice and the National Archives and Records Administration are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the documents, according to a statement by Richard Sauber, special counsel to Biden.Sauber said the documents appear to be from the Obama administration, during which Biden served as vice president.The documents, Sauber said, were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy…

Pfizer could begin manufacturing Paxlovid in China through a local partner within three to four months following moves by Beijing to provide the clearances required to produce and supply the Covid-19 drug in the country.Albert Bourla, Pfizer chief executive, said on Monday that a local contract manufacturer is gearing up to begin production as demand skyrockets for the oral antiviral treatment amid a supply crunch in China. Last year Pfizer signed a deal with Zhejiang Huahai to produce Paxlovid to meet the needs of Chinese patients. “We were calculating that this will take us all the way to the end of…

Iran, which has already executed four people who took part in protests in recent months, sentenced three more people to death on Monday on charges of “waging war on God.” The three men – Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeid Yaghoubi – were accused of killing members of the Basij militia, a paramilitary group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Two men were hanged on Saturday, while two others were executed in December.  Officials from the U.S. and other Western nations have accused Iran of convicting suspects in kangaroo courts and rushing to carry out their executions. “These executions are a key…